Quantitative Analysis on Development Sustainability for Hubei Province in 2003——Based on the Ecological Footprint Model
Sustainability measurement is important for implementing the sustainable development strategy. And ecological footprint model is a new method of such measurement. In this paper, ecological footprint analysis, a biophysical measuring method which is to measure and compare the gap between human demand toward natural environment system for their activities and ecological capacity of natural environment system (also called ecological supply) is applied to calculate and analyze the ecological footprint of Hubei in 2003. The results show that for Hubei, the ecological footprint per capita hi 2003 is 1.8580 hm2 while the available ecologically productive area is 0.9704 hm2per capita, resulting in an ecological deficit of 0.8876 hm2.cap-1. The ecological footprint goes beyond 91.5％ of the ecological carrying capacity in that year in Hubei, and the development of the province is in an unsustainable state. Among them, the ecological deficit from fossil energy consumption per capita accounts for 43.9％ of the total, and the footprint deficit from the arable land per capita accounts for 79.3％ of the total. Finally, the author analyses the reasons of the ecological deficit and the ways to reduce it.
Ecological Footprint Sustainability Ecological Carrying Capacity Hubei Province
CHENG Bi-hai WANG Qing
Resources and Ecological Economics Research Center, Northeastern University, P.R.China, 110004;Schoo School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Hubei University of Technology, P.R.China, 430068
国际会议
2007 International Conference on Dtrategic Management（2007年战略管理国际会议）
成都
英文
906-913
2007-04-19（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）